Living · Family duel · Côte-des-Neiges or Notre-Dame-de-Grâce · October 13, 2026
Two neighbouring areas seen with children: schools, parks, commutes, and the compromise that decides between Côte-des-Neiges and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Côte-des-Neiges or Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for a family, side by side. Côte-des-Neiges: The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board; the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique and several private colleges are on the territory. Dense and noisy on the arteries, with hard parking near the hospitals and the university. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: The neighbourhood falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board, with several English and private high schools nearby; Concordia's Loyola campus and Villa Maria College are in the neighbourhood. A house costs $1.25 million: NDG is no longer an entry neighbourhood, and the plex condo is the alternative. For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. For families who want a brick house, a quiet street, the metro, English and French schools and a bilingual neighbourhood: NDG is the first address for newcomers from Ontario and MUHC professionals.
Côte-des-Neiges or Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for a family: two neighbouring areas, the same questions on both sides. Schools, parks, commutes and the compromise each one asks of a family, taken from our neighbourhood guides and from what families tell us after the visits. The figures are those published by the APCIQ for the second quarter of 2026; nothing is embellished.
| Côte-des-Neiges | Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board; the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique and several private colleges are on the territory. | The neighbourhood falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board, with several English and private high schools nearby; Concordia's Loyola campus and Villa Maria College are in the neighbourhood. |
| Parks | Mount Royal (the park, Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, the trails) is the neighbourhood's great space; Parc Kent, Parc Martin-Luther-King and Parc Van Horne are the neighbourhood parks, with the sports centre and pool. | Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Park is the neighbourhood's green heart, with its fields and skating rink; Loyola, Trenholme and Girouard parks add to it; Mount Royal and Westmount Park are neighbours. |
| Commutes | The blue line serves Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal and Snowdon (transfer to the orange line); the orange line stops at Snowdon, Côte-Sainte-Catherine and Plamondon, then Namur. | The orange line serves NDG at Villa-Maria and Vendôme; Vendôme is also an exo train station (Vaudreuil-Hudson and Candiac lines) connected to the MUHC. |
| The market in 2026 | The QPAREB's CDN/CSL sector shows a single-family home at $1,164,500 (+10 % year over year, +20 % in five years) sold in 29 days, one of the island's shortest delays, with 92 active listings; these are mostly the houses of Côte-Saint-Luc, Hampstead and Snowdon. | NDG is one of the rare central neighbourhoods where the single-family home is a real market (94 active listings in Q2): $1,247,000 median, down 5 % year over year and 1 % over twelve months, at 49 days on market. |
| For which family | For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. | For families who want a brick house, a quiet street, the metro, English and French schools and a bilingual neighbourhood: NDG is the first address for newcomers from Ontario and MUHC professionals. |
Côte-des-Neiges: For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: For families who want a brick house, a quiet street, the metro, English and French schools and a bilingual neighbourhood: NDG is the first address for newcomers from Ontario and MUHC professionals.
The compromise that most often decides between the two, seen with children. On one side, dense and noisy on the arteries, with hard parking near the hospitals and the university. On the other, a house costs $1.25 million: NDG is no longer an entry neighbourhood, and the plex condo is the alternative. The family that accepts one of the two more easily has found its neighbourhood. The full family portrait of each is in Living in Côte-des-Neiges with a family and Living in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) with a family; the general duel, all profiles together, is in Côte-des-Neiges or Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: the pros and cons.
For those who study or work in the universities and hospitals and want to live within walking distance of their job, the metro and the mountain; for an investor renting to that pool; for families looking for a semi-detached house in Snowdon. For families who want a brick house, a quiet street, the metro, English and French schools and a bilingual neighbourhood: NDG is the first address for newcomers from Ontario and MUHC professionals. The area whose compromise bothers you least is the right one.
The borough falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board; the Université de Montréal, HEC Montréal, Polytechnique and several private colleges are on the territory. The neighbourhood falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal and the English Montreal School Board, with several English and private high schools nearby; Concordia's Loyola campus and Villa Maria College are in the neighbourhood. No page replaces checking the school catchment of the exact address.
The blue line serves Côte-des-Neiges, Université-de-Montréal and Snowdon (transfer to the orange line); the orange line stops at Snowdon, Côte-Sainte-Catherine and Plamondon, then Namur. The orange line serves NDG at Villa-Maria and Vendôme; Vendôme is also an exo train station (Vaudreuil-Hudson and Candiac lines) connected to the MUHC. Do both commutes once, on a Tuesday morning, before deciding.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Côte-des-Neiges and Living in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) guides and from what families tell us after the visits; no figure is added to those published by the APCIQ, and ranking schools is not our trade. The other neighbourhood duels seen with children are in neighbourhood against neighbourhood for a family.
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